CaseFormation2009

San Pablo, CA, USA

Many star like objects fly in formation then blink out as they fly toward coast

Report quality: Moderate51/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (79 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-01-12
Where
San Pablo, CA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
45 min
Geo
37.962, -122.346 · exact
Slug
formation-over-san-pablo-ca-2009-3d0c5e
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

In context

  • San Pablo, CA shows up 8 times across the archive.
  • 647 reports came from California in 2009.
  • In the 2000s, 3.1% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.

Report

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